Stolen pleasures are always more thrilling than those come by honestly.

Only what is below you tries to pull you down.

We have to be bigger than the things we suffer.

Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world.  Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.

'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Don't raise your expectations too high. It's the surest way of being disappointed.

For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

The sign of a great player is not how much he scores, but how much he lifts his teammates performance

Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.